The Senate was in session all night Friday and into Saturday morning but eventually passed its budget blueprint with an extension of Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and steep cuts in some domestic programs.
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The vote was possible after weeks of wrangling between Republicans in the House and Senate over basic math. Does two plus two really equal four, or does it equal whatever Republicans say it does?
It doesn’t matter. Both parties play games with math, depending on who’s in power. The solution Republicans came up with is novel and unusual. They say that because the expiring tax cuts have been in place since 2017, extending the $4 trillion in cuts shouldn’t be recorded as costing anything because the GOP says so.
Yes,
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